I Realized That If I Wanted A Different Experience, I Needed To Choose Differently.

I can’t stress this enough.

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

‎“Be on the side with Allah and His Messenger even if all of mankind is on the other side.”

‎[al-Fawa'id pg 167

Poems & Words

If you have sinned in private, make sure you do even lot more good deeds in private...

So that when the scales will be set on the day of judgement the latter will outweigh the former.

If it weren't for Islam, I would have lost my sanity long back. Islam keeps me afloat.

Laa hawla wa laa quwwata illa billah

Ye jo mohabbatein hoti hai na, insaan ko barbaad kr deti hai

We live in what-ifs & we die certainly

I'm reading about how Israel, in the immediate aftermath of the 1948 Nakba, deliberately replaced olive trees and other indigenous flora with European plants. This ecological disaster, which is now proudly hailed under the banner of 'making the desert bloom,' was done to 'de-Arabize' the landscape, and to cover up - often with fast-growing European pine trees -the ruins of Palestinian villages that were destroyed by Zionists forces.

And I just need everyone to read this passage from Pappé, because the symbolism of what happened to those European pine trees in the desert speaks for itself:

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé (2006, p. 227-228.)